Submission tips: multiple submission limits

The editors of the Journal of Modern Literature have instituted a new policy on multiple submissions by the same author, limiting submissions to one per author per 12-month period.

That is, once an author has submitted a piece, they may not submit any others for our consideration for a period of 12 months. We will automatically decline any submission not in compliance with this policy.

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Welcome new JML co-editor Jessica Burstein

 

Jessica Burstein has been promoted from advisory editor to co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Burstein has had a long career in editing, learning while serving as a lackey (the term “editorial assistant” had yet to be invented, and those chosen did not appear on the masthead) at Critical Inquiry; then serving as the first founding managing editor of Modernism/modernity, beginning in a room with a chair, a phone, and a rolodex, and putting together its early issues. 

As an associate professor in the Department of English and adjunct in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, Burstein currently serves on the editorial boards of Modern Language Quarterly, as well as the advisory editorial board of Modernism/modernity. Their own critical work focuses on fashion and modernism; but they nurse a residual fondness for the history of sciences, and contemporary fiction. Burstein’s novel What It Was Like Not To Sleep With You has yet to find a press; meanwhile you can find Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art in an art history library near you.

Welcome new JML co-editor Michael Leong

Michael Leong has been promoted from advisory editor to co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Dr. Leong is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College. He is the author of several books of poetry—most recently Words on Edge (2018)—and the monograph Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (U of Iowa P, 2020). His essays on poetry and poetics have appeared or are forthcoming in a wide range of journals including A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America; ARCADE: Literature, the Humanities, & the World; Contemporary Literature; Denver Quarterly; The Hopkins Review; Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures; Interim; Jacket2; Journal of Modern Literature; Modern Language Studies; Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. He has previously served on the editorial board of American Literature. He lives in Central Ohio.

Dr. Leong joins the team of co-editors that includes Robert Caserio, Penn State University; Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Janet Lyon, Penn State University; Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University; Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania; Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University; and Jennifer Yusin, Drexel University. 

Welcome new JML co-editors!

Longtime JML co-editor Paula Marantz Cohen stepped down from her position this winter due to her heavy responsibilities as dean of the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. We have published a farewell tribute in JML 45.3.

Three former JML advisory editors have been promoted to co-editor:

Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of three monographs--most recently Toward the Geopolitical Novel: American Fiction in the 21st Century (Columbia 2013). She has also edited five collections. Her latest books,  Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity and Adorno's Minima Moralia in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work and Ecology, both appeared in late 2021.  

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He served as director of the Latino Studies Program at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico (2009), which won honorable mention at the 2009 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latino and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, and most recently of The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction (2020). His essays have appeared in American Literary History, Atlantic Studies, Modern Language Notes, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Textual Practice. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Schomburg Foundation, Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Research Fellowship, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, the UB Humanities Institute, and the UIUC Humanities Research Institute.  His most recent book manuscript, tentatively titled Neobugarron: Latina/o American Sexual Practice in the Age of Neoliberalism, is forthcoming.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013); and, as editor, Spatial Literary Studies (2020), Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2018); and The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017). Tally is also the general editor of “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,” a Palgrave Macmillan book series.

These new editors join Robert Caserio, Penn State University; Janet Lyon, Penn State University; Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University; Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania; and Jennifer Yusin, Drexel University.